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New comment by vmaurin in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

vmaurin — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:37:34 +0000

> The Wero app can be installed on any mobile device or tablet running iOS 17.4 or later, or Android 9 or later. We recommend updating your device to the latest version of its operating system for maximum performance and security.

> It is not possible to send Wero payments to friends & family via a web browser or on a computer

Truly independent from US companies ... If you don't have an iOS or an Android device, you are just stuck, once again

New comment by vmaurin in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

vmaurin — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:50:55 +0000

> The entire software development lifecycle was, it turns out, designed around the idea that it takes a day to produce a few hundred lines of code. And now it doesn’t.

No, it was never designed around that. All methodologies of software dev don't focus too much on writing the code, but on everything else: requirement definition, quality, maintenance, speed of integrating feature, scaling the work, ...

Personally with 20 years of experience, I never seen a single company were writing the code was a bottleneck

New comment by vmaurin in "A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic"

vmaurin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:24:50 +0000

I wonder if these fanboys will publicly walk back their statements if Mythos turns out to BS. Remember, in French, mythos is short for mythomanes that means "pathological liars"

LLMs benchmark with esoteric programming languages

vmaurin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:10:07 +0000

Article URL: https://esolang-bench.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411570

Points: 2

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New comment by vmaurin in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

vmaurin — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:59:11 +0000

A gentle reminder that all the big techs companies would not exist without open source projects

New comment by vmaurin in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

vmaurin — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:23:59 +0000

Money is not a good success metric https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

Bezos is making a lot of money. But it doesn't mean it makes the world better. Prime or AWS can still work fine without having Bezos making tons of money

New comment by vmaurin in "Writing code is cheap now"

vmaurin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:34:24 +0000

Agentic coding are bringing new people to coding. But instead of reading some books about coding or looking at the history, they face the same problems as before, they have the same struggle and they re-invent the same solutions.

I am waiting for the vibe coding expert posts that will tell us that lines of code are not a good measure, it is a liability and you should instruct your agent to write less code ...

New comment by vmaurin in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

vmaurin — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:07:44 +0000

I am waiting people to commits their prompt/agents setup instead of the code to call this a changing paradigm. So far it is "just" machine generating code and generating code doesn't solve all the software problem (but yeah they get pretty good at generating code)

New comment by vmaurin in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

vmaurin — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:25:14 +0000

> facts are facts, and AI is going to change programming forever

Show me these "facts"

New comment by vmaurin in "Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems"

vmaurin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:56:42 +0000

* you add an HTTP header saying "I am a kid" * porn web servers read and handle this headers * if they don't (easy to test), they get fined

It is easy to implement, easy to monitor, and will probably just work if the government do the effort to monitor and enforce it. If not, it will just be an other DNT header

New comment by vmaurin in "What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?"

vmaurin — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:20:33 +0000

The security argument is the best one to shove all this monopoly practices, but I doubt there are real proof of that somewhere. These days, I think I have most trust in a small app developed by a folk in a garage than something produces by Meta or Google

New comment by vmaurin in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

vmaurin — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:26:45 +0000

Same goes for age verification.

There was the DNT header, that was a bit to simplistic, but was never implemented https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

The thing people need to understand here is that the annoyance is not due to lack of technical solutions, or regulations forcing something. It is explicitly wanted by the industry so they can maximize the consent rate. The browser solution is probably the best technical/user friendly one, but ad tech/data gathering industry won't have any consent. As they control most of the web, they will never do that

New comment by vmaurin in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

vmaurin — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:16:32 +0000

I left the industry 4y ago, but at the time, it was impossible to track impressions on FB ads. So when FB tells you "We did display 1000 time your ads", you just have to believe them. For the IP of the click, I have seen it from my own eyes in 2013, from Facebook. About analytic tools, I let you check who is the leader in this market, and about their independence in the click market ... If you have a website that pointed by a FB ad campaign, just look at the IP of the incoming clicks.

> Not sure if you had a stroke while writing this, but this makes no sense.

Well, that what is happening in practice. It is an attribution game, ad companies try to have the best conversion numbers more than increasing the overall sales of a store.

I have been working in a drive to (physical) store company, we were measuring performances with an expose group + a control group and we were showing 3% visit in store increase during a campaign, while our competitors were claiming things around 10%. We knew that their tracking technology was just about "we shown an ad, they visited the store, it is because of us"

New comment by vmaurin in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

vmaurin — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:23:56 +0000

I did work in the ad tech industry for almost 15y and big corp like Google/FB scam their user:

- they don't allow double tracking, so you have to trust their numbers

- if you look at IP from their "clicks", you see often a FB/Google datacenter IP range

- and for most of the traffic they might send you, they did just clever algorithm and heavy profiling to stole your organic traffic. So they get this "amazing" performance by claiming people that would have bought on your site anyway

I have seen and been working in companies trying do to the impact metrics well, but these are outliers

- websites showing ads are annoying their user and get no benefit of it

- stores/brands/people that want to advert pays a bug chunk of money for nothing - only the middle men are getting benefits

New comment by vmaurin in "Error handling in Rust"

vmaurin — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:30:54 +0000

The cyclic pattern of IT. New language, same problems, same mistakes, same solutions found (but losing years again)

New comment by vmaurin in "Developers, don't despair, big tech and AI hype is off the rails again"

vmaurin — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:51:06 +0000

I claim that by the end of the year, all VC jobs will be replaced by AI. But I don't know why, my claim is not taken seriously or not very popular !

New comment by vmaurin in "A critical look at MCP"

vmaurin — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:59:31 +0000

It will probably never work. Companies have spend probably the last decade(s?) closing everything on Internet: * no more RSS feed * paywall * the need to have an "app" to access a service * killing open protocols

And all of the sudden, everyone will expose their data through simple API calls ?

New comment by vmaurin in "Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?"

vmaurin — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 07:41:07 +0000

I do, a Oneplus 6, PMOS "edge" with OpenRC + Phosh. Everything is fine, except I still need to reboot the phone after each call to be sure to have the audio working

New comment by vmaurin in "What have we forgotten?"

vmaurin — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:20:59 +0000

In the RFC, the browser is named "user-agent". And in OAuth2 flow, the browser is acting as client only on the implicit flow. Also the intent of the authors for the implicit flow is that the "client" is a mobile/desktop applications, and not especially something running in a browser

New comment by vmaurin in "What Have We Forgotten?"

vmaurin — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:43:30 +0000

Yes they are!

I think I know the reason: OAuth2 naming. In the OAuth rfc https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749 they named one of the role "client", but than meant to represent a server in the more standard flow, while they named the browser "user-agent". Then people understood that "client" is the browser, so they went nuts storing access token and refresh token in the browser local storage, instead of being store in the server session storage, accessible with a session cookie.

So what people should have done https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749#section-4.1 (you can see here the tokens never reach the user agent, so the server can keep them in a session, then have the user agent identified by a cookie. And what most of the people did https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749#section-4.2